Ok, thanks for all!!!!

@arcadez2003 said in dodonpachi dai ou jou (normal and black label) stopped working with latest fbneo + latest retropie:

If your using the latest version of FBN and your rom and PGM bios are correct then you should have no troubles running ddp3

Running was working but I had to load the game individually, ie, if I create a PlayList from a folder and scan it, 'ddp3' doesn't get added to that playlist (like if it's not recognized due to a different CRC32 value I guess). Not sure if how that could get officially fix so that it's recognized when creating Playlists.

@mikebrin
it explains how to run in verbose mode via the link @Clyde provided:

@clyde said in Cannot get Player 2 Joystick to work:

Please run one of the games with verbose logging

but if you can't get into the runcommand menu, it's a moot point i guess.

now, as for your issue - donkey kong's 2 player mode uses one stick - the real cabinet only had one (and why not, since, the 2 player mode isn't simultaneous). you take turns on one stick.

it's possible that there's a cocktail/2p mode you can select via the service menu or dipswitches, or you could map the player 2 controls as alternatives for player 2 via the MAME menu for this game only, or something like that.

note, these instructions are for mame2003 (which is recommended), not the mame2016 which you're using (which is not recommended).

@thorr69 Absolutely! When my girlfriend came to my home for the first time more than two years ago, she was very surprised by my RetroPie upright arcade cabinet (subsequently, she told me that she thought "okay, kissing later"), and soon after that, we played together next to another. 😊 We held hands for the first time when we looked up special moves for Street Fighter II Champions Edition online. 💞😄

(Her interest in playing retro games waned over time, but she still likes my "Automat" – German for "machine" – up until this day.)

Sorry for the off-topic, but this triggered some fond memories … 😇

@john_carter No, it's is when I enable the VMS video driver and then the audio fails to work under HDMI. I haven't seen any other reports of this.

It's a common issue, since the HDMI audio is handled by the KMS driver automatically. It's been widely reported - in fact when the KMS driver for Pi4 was announced, it was one of the changes included (see this forum post). Here in the foruns - see this topic.

@colstar said in Outrun control issue:

@colstar I actually placed a few other roms that were not running under MAME into the FBNeo folder and that worked fine! :)

Romsets have to match the emulator and its version, i recommend reading retropie's arcade documentation.

@george-spiggott I didn't know there was a Libretro version of pcsx2. I'm using the standalone version downloaded from the "experimental" section of retropie setup. Works great on my Linux Mint box. Just doesn't have support for CHD files. I'll keep my eye out for an lr version.

Thank you for being so patient with me. The problem is solved now. If I believed in gods, I would call you a retropie god. I guess Global Moderator will have to do.

"that's why I asked for a complete log (including ES exiting)." I was giving you what ES was producing.

I launched ES from terminal with the command emulationstation --debug

I went and scraped the snes ROMS - data and images were retrieved.

Exited ES and restarted it with just the emulationstation command

copied the es_log.txt file to a rom folder - so I could transfer it to my PC

How I fixed the problem:

Moved the SNES ROM's to a folder called SNESBAK

There was no /snes/gamelist.xml file

I found a bucket load of image files in /home/pi/.emulationstation/downloaded_images/snes/ I deleted them all

I rebooted retropie

Copied the snes ROMs from the SNESBAK folder to the snes folder

restarted ES

Tried scraping 10 of the snes ROMS and was succesful

Restarted ES and the 10 ROM's data and images were saved.

Deleted SNESBAK and ROMS

@tusabez Nevermind. Apparently I changed the layout for Retroarch a while back which made them not playable. I got them running now. Thanks though!

Hi,

After looking at the runcommand log, I didn't see anything weird, especially since the slowness tended to before runcommand had started.

I reinstalled Alexander Shalin's rclone script for cloud syncs and the problem is sorted.

Thanks for being there ready to help 😀

@aaronc75 Could you provide more information about how you have setup Skyscraper? That path to the media looks strange. It seems you have relative paths turned on, but I don't understand why it says ./downloaded_images as the media path.

What are the permissions of the ./downloaded_images folder itself?

Righto, here's the solution for everyone who wants to let RetroPie handle NTSC/ NTSC progressive modes but then switch to the PAL60 equivalent:
Put this into runcommand-onstart.sh:

(sleep 15 && sudo /home/pi/tweakvec/tweakvec.py --preset PAL60) &

If it doesn't work for your Pi, try sleeping a bit longer. On my Pi3, 15 seconds seems like the sweet spot.

@tomcat91fr said in Can't mount NAS drive for Roms:

Main mistake : I was working from my PC via a Telnet connection, and was editing my file autostart.sh with a windows editor ! Big mistake !!

You can access the config folder via file shares (\\retropie\config), you don't necessarily need the SSH (Telnet is not available on the Pi) connection. Either way, it's strange because nowadays Notepad (default Windows editor) supports Unix line endings.

Either way, good you have this solved - when in doubt, use Notepad++ or edit directly on the Pi, using nano.

@emulatre71 Oddly it has never happened before, but now again on a brand new install tonight. Tried the same trick and it worked there as well.

@mitu i used the git command and i used cp in the /boot/overlays as root

@dsquared

I am unable to deselect "en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8" or select "en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" When I attempt to select

en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" I can not place a * in the [ ]. I am unable to remove the * from the "[ ] en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8" line. I leave the cursor on "[ ] en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8"

how are you selecting/deselecting? on a keyboard it's the space bar, and then you need to use the tab key to select 'OK' (and then enter to use it).

@greenhawk84 said in How often do you fresh build?:

Hello, just curious about something I have never done until I have to with a new Pi model or mandatory change, which is start over again with a fresh install. How often do you do this?

Like others here, I also don't do it without good reason, e.g. when I switched from my Pi 3b to my new Pi 4 last spring. I also have customised my installation pretty much, so a new installation would require a good amount of re-configuration, even if most configurations can just be copied over from the old system.

I often wonder if so many updates through a package update eventually cause regressions.

RetroPie is built on Linux which in my long lasting experience doesn't "litter" the system over time as much as Windows does. You usually don't have to clean up or re-install a standard Linux system at all. As far as I can tell as a mere (power) user, RetroPie itself is also pretty neatly designed in the same way, so you shouldn't fear any regressions by just updating it via the RetroPie setup.

All that said, one important thing for any system is to back it up on a regular basis. Apart from failed updates or operating errors, every hardware can break any day for a number of reasons. See the Docs about Making a Backup.

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt reply.
Sorry for not having fully specified my config.
When writing this very post, I was going through the template for it using the link you provided and came across the question 'usb devices connect'. At this point I thought of trying starting Amiberry without having my 2 Xbox (original) controllers connected, which are in turn connected to my USB hub.
And guess what...this did the trick! Amiberry now starts fine. I'm able to reproduce the issue so this is really the problem. Disconnecting either one of the 2 controllers will also work. But 2 at the same time won't work. I'm not having any other issues with both connected at the same time. I have a 5A PSU and never seen the rainbow logo with this setup except immediately after power on (bios screen).

I hope this may help anyone else stumbling upon this in the future.

@pmdci you have to open the Retroarch menu when you are running a game. Go to Quick Menu, Options, then Controls. Set the player 1 to Atari joystick (or something similar to that). That will allow you to use the start key on your controller.

Same for the Atari 800 if you are running that portion of the emulator.